I'm from China and when connect to TC server my ping is always over 500ms and above.
I can find some way to decrease that(like 200ms) but It will make my IP address change routinely(by using some kind of VPN my IP may from all over the world)
And I have been banned several times with it.(including timeout or wrong ip address)

(2017-01-29 19:18)Tingle Wrote: How is your ping lower when using a VPN?

I'm not sure about this, but if im not wrong, VPN means Virtual Private Network, meaning that if you conect to a network that it's near to france, you can have lower ping on the game. But somethims, those VPN directions keep changing.

Its bypassing all the chinese firewalls and crap probably, my understanding of it is that it's heavily censored and certain large websites are blocked altogether in favour of sites that are smaller because those small sites are chinese.

(2017-01-29 20:38)Stephen Wrote: Its bypassing all the chinese firewalls and crap probably, my understanding of it is that it's heavily censored and certain large websites are blocked altogether in favour of sites that are smaller because those small sites are chinese.

It is mainly because government, who thinks comments are no good for China will be banned,then have the firewall. And that thing make connection quality very poor from China to other country.